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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for… — Dolly Parton
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into… — Charles de Lint
I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon… — Amanda Hocking
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages… — Charles Dickens
Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think… — Christine Feehan
I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing… — Jodi Picoult
Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us… — Rick Yancey
She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door — Patricia Briggs
He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious. — Arundhati Roy
Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his… — Kenneth Grahame
Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until the end of… — Richelle Mead
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. — Trudi Canavan
The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they… — Abbi Glines
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back. — Stephen King
When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms,… — Melissa de la Cruz
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson
In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle… — Suzanne Collins
Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best… — Ellis Peters
The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself. — Anne Sexton
What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him… — Cormac McCarthy
He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and… — Brian Jacques
Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously,… — Ann Brashares
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is… — David Mitchell
You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway.… — Michael J. Sullivan

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